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teson1 flying the mail

Lock Haven to Clarion

Gas and oil filled up, mail bags stowed away, gun in the holster on the hip, map strapped to the leg, goggles down - ready to go.

Contact!

While I had been eagerly following the cold front approaching from the west, hoping for some bad weather for a challenging flight, it was probably better it didn't arrive yet, and weather stayed CAVOK...
In fact I've wandered all over the place... Of course that's due to the facts that the winds were different from those forecast, right? (In truth I just can't hold a heading, or at least just didn't pay attention with this good weather LOL).
It's always interesting to observe how mental capacity is reduced to 20% when things start to go wrong. Doing stupid stuff like reading off the wrong numbers from the flight plan ect. Makes the flight more.. interesting...
But with sufficient conspicious landmarks to find the way I made it to the airport nevertheless.

Of course, you weren't down there low, weaving back and forth, shooting out the glass insulators on top of the telephone poles with your pistol now, were you?

If I get a chance this weekend, I want to fly this flight as well as the 2004 version of the Hell Stretch, just to give it a try. I found a great DH-4 that I can use and
still adhere to the 115 kt. speed limit. It's also painted up in Lindbergh's CAM livery, too!

Of course, you weren't down there low, weaving back and forth, shooting out the glass insulators on top of the telephone poles with your pistol now, were you?

If I get a chance this weekend, I want to fly this flight as well as the 2004 version of the Hell Stretch, just to give it a try. I found a great DH-4 that I can use and
still adhere to the 115 kt. speed limit. It's also painted up in Lindbergh's CAM livery, too!

Alan

Haha. Bang bang bang.

Can you post the name of the DH-4 please. A nicely modeled aircraft correct for the period would be great.

Johnsons Field to Huffman Farm

If the tab's on me I better hurry up...

Quite a bumpy ride. One moment going up at 1000 fpm, the next one down. Just fortunate that there's not a lot of airplanes flying around.

Maybe I went a bit overboard with that airport. Really difficult to find... 20 seconds out by the stopwatch still nothing to see. Then suddenly there it was, almost below. Some steep S turns brougt the plane down in almost one piece.
These country roads running E-W really helped to home in.